Augusto Pinochet

Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973.

Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum

September 2012

Orlando Letelier

Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden on September 10, 1976. The same day that he was deprived of his Chilean nationality by decree.

Assassination on Embassy Row: 34 years later

October 2010

Saul Landau

Remembering Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt 34 years after their assassination by Chile's secret police.

TNI and the Pinochet precedent

August 2009

On 21 September 1976, Transnational Institute discovered the brutal cost of fighting for economic and social justice, when Chilean secret service agents set off a car bomb in Washington DC killing TNI's director, Orlando Letelier along with Ronni Moffitt, a fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies. It has taken more than 30 years of struggle to bring some of those responsible to justice.